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10 best books like The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites (William Harmon): The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert, The Complete Poems, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, Selected Poetry, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, Say Uncle, A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Collected Poems, 1937-1971

The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorGeorge Herbert
ISBN1557252599
Metaphysical Poetry!

What’s that mean? Well, for the great poet T.S. Eliot, the term perfectly characterizes that moment in history when poetic writing became split into a Cartesian duality - ‘A disassociation of sensibility.’

And that, he says, happened back in the late...
The Complete Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0151009961
Can you really write a review for the entire output of one poet? Carl Sandburg represents America of the first half of the 20th century - industry, landscape, society - trust me, it is all in here. I tend to enjoy the smaller poems about weather or relationships, like "The Great Hunt," "Valley Song," "Offering...
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0393321789
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form

Explaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engaging exploration of poetic structure....
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
AuthorRon Padgett
ISBN0915924609
I own at least one book of poetic forms and have used several. I've also looked up individual forms online. This handbook edited by Ron Padgett is the best I've seen. I understand there can be problems getting permissions to reprint poems. This publisher worked that out. There is nothing more frustrating...
Selected Poetry
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN0192834940
Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one....
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374520259
This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing for...
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393314375
[O]ver a relatively short time--certainly no more than a generation or two--women have moved from being the subjects and objects of Irish poems to being the authors of them. It is a momentous transit. It is also a disruptive one. . . . What is more, such a transit . . . is almost invisible to the naked eye....
Say Uncle
AuthorKay Ryan
ISBN0802137172
Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and...
A Poet's Guide to Poetry
AuthorMary Kinzie
ISBN0226437396
A Poet's Guide to Poetry brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic...
Collected Poems, 1937-1971
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374522812
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
AuthorAlex Preminger
ISBN0691021236
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
Gathering the Tribes
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0300019858
The language and images of Carolyn Forché’s poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body’s functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of her poems deal with uprootedness—hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of...
Lives of the Poets
AuthorMichael Schmidt
ISBN0375706046
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.

Schmidt...
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
AuthorRichard Ellmann
ISBN0393956369
Welcome to the graveyard of forgotten poets. About half of these poets have been obliterated from discussions, another third hangs on as historically important, and about 20% heralded as Ist-icons of other some -Ism. Although Norton has selected a number of the most topical and respected poets of...
Selected Poems and Two Plays
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0020715404
Yeats’ speaks with a more moving and emotionally engaging voice about the middle of his long writing career in 1914-15 with poems like the short “A Coat”, “The Magi”, and the powerful “Easter 1916” about the failed Irish revolt whose participants were all but one executed. The memorable...
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN0486270521
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
AuthorCandace Ward
ISBN0486295680
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself.
This volume contains a rich...
Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0609803794
Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs' point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them.

List of contributors:
Edward Albee,  Jennifer Allen,  Danny Anderson,  Lynda Barry,  Rick Bass,  Charles Baxter,  Robert...
Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems
AuthorJudy Sierra
Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems by Judy Sierra is a themed book of penguin poems intended for readers in preschool through grade two. I gave it four stars. This book of poetry is creative and fact-filled and it follows a rhythmic beat and rhyme structure. Each poem teaches the reader about a...
Poets in a Landscape
AuthorGilbert Highet
ISBN1853753017
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0571087353
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested...
The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English
AuthorCor van den Heuvel
ISBN0393321185
Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates...
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
AuthorFaubion Bowers
ISBN0486292746
Haiku should be just
small stones dropping down a well
with a small splash
- James Kirkup (8)
Haiku or the complexity of subtlety
As a big fan of etymology, I was captivated by this book's introduction. It is a clear and detailed recount of the history of haiku. The present enthralling...
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
AuthorBoris Pasternak
ISBN0837182948
I don't really feel qualified to review this book. The poems are translated in what appears to be a beautiful manner. They flow nicely, and read well. Donald Davie is a poet, so I'm not surprised at that. I struggled and choked my way through each of his commentaries, however, finding very little resonance...
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